@JackGYarwood Thanks for answering! I read something about this company and I guess I now know why it was so unknown to me: I don't know anything about Atari microcomputers. I thought Lindasoft was related to the tons of companies that operated here in Italy during the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum 'official bootlegs' days (man, I love that moment) but apparently they didn't make anything for those computers. And yet, this story about a company named after someone's daughter is familiar. I have to dig out something more about this (and check these games, also).
I was looking at the title of this article, I clicked then I saw the photo of Calà and Sonic. Wow, didn't expect that, and what a Read, thank you! During those years I was 5-6 years old and I remember all of these commercial, very fondly indeed. It's great to see their story covered here, really.
Jerry Calá was Perfect for this role: yeah, it was involved in some Italian comedies "of the time" (I still love the first "Vacanze di Natale") but it was always a very funny guy overall, perfect for Sonic, in my opinion. Thanks to Mazzoli and Bertè for their experiences and thank you all, again, for the article!
What a journey this whole thing was, thank you for this article! Rambo for the C64 is a great (if not immensly hard) part of my gaming childhood, I had a lot of fun with Secret Command but I didn't know anything about these other MSXandfriends games. Got to explore this whole affair a bit more!
Played the demo of it on the PS1 a couple of data ago: I enjoyed it, sure, but mostly for the commentary, I didn't remember it to be that good (maybe because I usually set Italian as a language, makes sense). Gameplay... Not so much, but wasn't bad! And the PC version was probably better.
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Re: FIFA Cover Stars - Every Athlete From 1993 To 2022
What an effort, thank you! Thanks for this encyclopedia!
P.S.: You've put the Italian Fifa 99 cover with Christian Vieri but you forgot to write his name! It's the third one in the top row.
Re: Pixelthesia: Why We See Things In Video Games
Great, great read, thank you so much: having delved in game studies for a while, implementing the "mind games" aspect was extremely interesting!
Re: Rare Piece Of Italian Video Game History Dumped Online
@JackGYarwood Thanks for answering!
I read something about this company and I guess I now know why it was so unknown to me: I don't know anything about Atari microcomputers.
I thought Lindasoft was related to the tons of companies that operated here in Italy during the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum 'official bootlegs' days (man, I love that moment) but apparently they didn't make anything for those computers.
And yet, this story about a company named after someone's daughter is familiar.
I have to dig out something more about this (and check these games, also).
Re: Rare Piece Of Italian Video Game History Dumped Online
Well, being Italian is strange to me to hear the name Lindasoft for the first time here. Now I have something more to explore, so thank you!
Re: Flashback: The History Of Sonic's First Animated Commercial Outside Of Japan
I was looking at the title of this article, I clicked then I saw the photo of Calà and Sonic.
Wow, didn't expect that, and what a Read, thank you!
During those years I was 5-6 years old and I remember all of these commercial, very fondly indeed. It's great to see their story covered here, really.
Jerry Calá was Perfect for this role: yeah, it was involved in some Italian comedies "of the time" (I still love the first "Vacanze di Natale") but it was always a very funny guy overall, perfect for Sonic, in my opinion.
Thanks to Mazzoli and Bertè for their experiences and thank you all, again, for the article!
Re: Flashback: Unravelling The Confusing History Of Rambo On Japanese Computers
What a journey this whole thing was, thank you for this article! Rambo for the C64 is a great (if not immensly hard) part of my gaming childhood, I had a lot of fun with Secret Command but I didn't know anything about these other MSXandfriends games. Got to explore this whole affair a bit more!
Re: SNK vs. Capcom Is Being Ported To The C64 By Fans
Knowing of the other C64 fighting games - from IK+ to all the "they tried" ports - this looks truly, truly amazing.
Re: Move Aside FIFA 23, Actua Soccer 2 Is Coming To Steam
Played the demo of it on the PS1 a couple of data ago: I enjoyed it, sure, but mostly for the commentary, I didn't remember it to be that good (maybe because I usually set Italian as a language, makes sense). Gameplay... Not so much, but wasn't bad! And the PC version was probably better.